382 Scott Elliot . — On the Fertilisation of South 
Moraea tripetala, Ker (No. 1081 ! Fig. 142). 
In this form the style-branch and external perianth- 
segment form a perfect tube, while the internal perianth-seg- 
ment has vanished. Visitors : — Hymenoptera. 
Homeria elegans, Sweet. 
The flower is of a very simple type, similar to that of a 
Crocus but without the elongate perianth-tube which charac- 
terises that genus. The anthers are longer than the style- 
branches, which however being broad, project sideways 
between them ; the bifid teeth on the dorsal side of the style- 
branches are at first erect as in H. collina , but subsequently 
become reflex and pendulous (cf. Crocus , Henslow, Gard. 
Chron. Vol. V. p. 504, and Muller, ‘Alpen-Blumen,’ p. 56). 
Visitors : — Apis mellifica, , very ab., also Coleoptera. — Cape 
Town. 
Homeria collina. Sweet. 
In the typical form the stigmata are at first lower than 
the anthers, but eventually elongate till they are about a tenth 
of an inch above them. The segments of the perianth are 
reflexed at the apex, and it is chiefly on the reflexed part that 
insects alight. In the variety miniata , Bkr. the segments are 
erect, and insects usually alight upon the stigmata and then 
crawl down over the anthers. Visitors : — Typical form. 
Hymenoptera : a large ? Xylocopa (possibly accidental), three 
kinds of ants. Diptera : Syrphus , a form very like the house- 
fly, both efficient and two small sp. Coleoptera : Anisonyx 
ursus , Dichilus simplicipes. — Twelve Apostles, Cape Town. 
Var. miniata. Visitors : — Hymenoptera : Apis stealing honey 
from base of perianth. Diptera : 2 sp. unnamed. Coleoptera : 
Anisonyx ursus , A. longipes , Chilomene lunata , and another. — 
Muizenberg and Cape Town. 
Ferraria undulata, L. (Figs. 343, 144.) 
The perianth forms a capanulate tube about 6 lines deep 
and the horizontally spreading limbs are about 8 lines long 
with crisped wavy margins. Honey appears to be secreted 
by the very thick bases of the segments, and collects in longi- 
